Mullikin, a former IT specialist at Gannett, had been working at a horse farm in Kentucky.

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Pearson will be hoping to maintain his impressive Paralympic record of six gold medals on his new horse Gentleman who he has been working with since late last year.

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He has got the Bridgestone tyres he wanted and has had Yamaha working hard in testing and we have seen increased horse power as a result.

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Underneath his trademark 10-gallon hat is a hard-working gentleman who serves as an example for almost everyone in horse racing.

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Horse had been intrinsic to Romanian life pulling carts through the streets or working the fields.

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That afternoon, Mr. Davis played a track from a New Age album he's working on in his studio and checked on a five-month-old Warlander horse, born on the property.

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The Riding Part: Sheri teaches herd dynamics, communicating with horses, horses as working animals, horses (and us) as sensate beings in a sensate world, horse heartbeats, grooming and tacking up.

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He always had an interest in horse racing during his football career and, after retiring from professional football he began working as an assistant trainer, before becoming a licensed trainer in his own right in 1990 with 10 horses in his care in Lambourn.

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